An environmental group is filing a legal motion asking the National Energy Board to expand the scope of its review of climate-change impacts of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion as the deadline looms for interveners to file final arguments with the board.

“It’s to be expected that there is going to be global interest in our natural resources,” said Vivian Krause, who followed the paper trail.

She says millions of U.S. dollars has funded the anti-pipeline movement.

Researcher Vivian Krause looks at the extent American money is meddling in B.C.oil and gas issues. 11:01

But environmental activist Tzeporah Berman argues that Canada’s pipeline decisions are an international issue and that the focus on where the money comes from detracts from climate-change concerns.

“The amount of money that has gone to environmental organizations for campaigns is a drop in the bucket compared to what the oil industry and the governments are spending,” she said.

“This is a campaign that’s run by Canadians and is Indigenous-led — to fearmonger that somehow it’s run by American foundations is insulting to the thousands of Canadians who are standing up.”

A row of demonstrators in Burnaby protest the pipeline expansion last March. One B.C. researcher has said that millions of U.S. dollars are funding the anti-pipeline movement in Canada. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)

Climate-change reviews

Stand.earth, the grassroots organization launching the legal motion, is pushing for upstream and downstream environmental impacts of the project to be taken into account — particularily how the Trans Mountain pipeline would relate to the expansion of oilsands and higher emissions.

“The prime minister can’t have it both ways: he can’t say he’s going to protect the climate and create a plan in Canada to reduce emissions while increasing emissions from the oilsands,” said Berman, the international programs co-ordinator with Stand.earth.

The board said in 2014 that it is not considering all upstream and downstream emissions and has argued that the growth of the oilsands is not based on this one pipeline project.

Berman pointed to promises from the federal Liberal government to review the impacts of pipeline projects like Energy East and Trans Mountain.

“They created a process for Energy East to be reviewed on climate change, but they gave Trans Mountain a pass,” she told Stephen Quinn, the host of CBC’s The Early Edition.

“They did that because it was already in process when [the Liberals] got elected, there was already a review going on.”

The NEB is now in the middle of doing another assessment of the environmental impacts of the project and has until Feb. 22 to issue its final recommendation to the government on whether the project should go ahead.

“The world has changed a lot since this pipeline was proposed,” Berman said.

CBC News reached out to the NEB and Trans Mountain Corporation but neither were available for comment.

An environmental group is filing a legal motion asking the National Energy Board to expand the scope of its review climate change impacts as the deadline looms for interveners to file final arguments. 11:01

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Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area.[7] It is located adjacent to the City of Edmonton’s eastern boundary,[8] generally south of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail), west of Highway 21 and north of Highway 630 (Wye Road).[9] Other portions of Sherwood Park extend beyond Yellowhead Trail and Wye Road, while Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) separates Refinery Row to the west from the balance of the hamlet to the east.[9]

Sherwood Park was established in 1955 on farmland of the Smeltzer family, east of Edmonton. With a population of 70,618 in 2016,[6] Sherwood Park has enough people to be Alberta’s seventh largest city, but technically retains the status of a hamlet. The Government of Alberta recognizes the Sherwood Park Urban Service Area as equivalent to a city.

History

Sherwood Park, originally named Campbelltown, was founded by John Hook Campbell and John Mitchell in 1953 when the Municipal District of Strathcona No. 83 approved their proposed development of a bedroom community east of Edmonton. The first homes within the community were marketed to the public in 1955. Canada Post intervened on the name of Campbelltown due to the existence of several other communities in Canada within the same name, so the community’s name was changed to Sherwood Park in 1956.
Geography

The Sherwood Park Urban Service Area is located in the Edmonton Capital Region along the western edge of central Strathcona County adjacent to the City of Edmonton.[8] The majority of the community is bound by Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) to the north, Highway 21 to the east, Highway 630 (Wye Road) to the south, and Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) to the west. The Refinery Row portion of Sherwood Park is located across Anthony Henday Drive to the west, between Sherwood Park Freeway and Highway 16. Numerous developments fronting the south side of Wye Road, including Wye Gardens, Wye Crossing, Salisbury Village and the Estates of Sherwood Park, are also within the community. Lands north of Highway 16 and south of Township Road 534/Oldman Creek between Range Road 232 (Sherwood Drive) to the west and Highway 21 to the east are also within the Sherwood Park urban service area.

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A video of a pint-sized powwow dancer has gone viral after the two year old stole the show on National Indigenous Day in Camrose.

Albert (A.J.) Apsassin may just be a toddler, but he didn’t hesitate to jump in on a dance in front of 3,000 people on June 21.

Wearing jingle bells, feathers and fringe on top of his Pampers, he stomped and hopped his way through the chicken dance, keeping to the beat of the drum with the other male dancers.

His mother, Martina Desjarlais, posted a video of the dance on Facebook. It has over 800,000 views. She said she has received nothing but positive comments and is not entirely surprised at how her son captured everyone’s attention.

“He’s a natural. He listens to the songs well and knows what to do,” she said.

“When he was a newborn, he would only fall asleep to powwow music. Even now, if he has a hard time sleeping, I’ll watch powwow videos with him and he’ll get sleepy.”

When he was a newborn, he would only fall asleep to powwow music.– Martina Desjarlais

Martina Desjarlais started dancing six years ago after the death of her sister, who was a jingle-dress dancer.

When A.J. was born, she wanted to instill a connection to his Cree roots. He seemed to fall in love with dance on his own, she said.

A.J.’s father, John Apsassin, grew up competing in rodeo events like bullriding and saddle bronc. He said his son has also shown interest in horses — he anticipates long summers of powwows and rodeos in his future.

He said his son will be an inspiration to other kids. Watching his son dance inspires him, too.

“I was getting chills watching it,” he said. “When the song ended, I just got goosebumps. I was like, wow, that was pretty good.”

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“The settlement of this claim is a reflection of Canada’s commitment to reconciliation and to Canada’s goal of addressing historical First Nation grievances that are the subject matter of specific claims,” the settlement agreement states.

Blood Tribe band councillor Martin Heavy Head says the proposed $150-million settlement for the loss of his community’s cattle industry in the early 20th century is less than half of what the band calculates it actually lost. But he says members should vote in favour of it. (Reid Southwick/CBC)

The case is separate from other claims the First Nation has pursued with Ottawa, including its Big Claim for land stretching into what is now the town of Cardston and part of Waterton Lakes National Park.

As part of the deal, the Blood Tribe says it has agreed to withdraw its lawsuit over its so-called mismanagement of assets claim.

Ottawa caused cows to starve, band says

According to the lawsuit, the band says it had agreed in the late 1800s to share its land in exchange for resources, expertise and training to “begin a transition to a new economy and a new way of life” after buffalo herds were wiped out.

The band wanted to get into cattle farming, but Ottawa had failed to fulfill promises in Treaty 7 to provide the band with livestock, the statement of claim says. Members traded their own horses for cattle and raised the animals on their own. By 1906, they had amassed 7,500 head of cattle.

But the Blood Tribe claims the federal government later mismanaged the herd by starving the cattle and selling them for less than what they were worth.

‘Government figured it knew better’

The lawsuit doesn’t explain why federal officials were allowed to manage a herd that belonged to the band, but historian Hugh Dempsey says “the government figured it knew better.”

“The government stepped in and said, ‘We will take over. We recognize your ownership of these cattle — they have your brand on them and so on — but they will be part of a large herd that will be administered by the government,'” Dempsey says.

“They did try to run it, and they did a bad job of it.”

The lawsuit claims Ottawa mismanaged the herd in numerous ways, including by:

Failing to feed cattle enough, or at all, which meant they had to be sold to avoid starvation.

Butchering for sale a “large number” of two-year-old steers that were starving and could have yielded three times as much money if they were left on the land to grow fat.

Refusing to allow band members to skin the carcasses of cattle that died of starvation when hides were in demand.

Selling cattle for less than half their normal value.

Selling cattle and failing to account for the proceeds.

Selling cattle belonging to Blood Tribe members without their consent.

Problems continued after initial complaints

The Blood Tribe took its grievances to then-Indian commissioner William Graham, who investigated the complaints and reported back to Ottawa in 1918 that he had found a “long list of irregularities and (cases of) mismanagement of the Blood Tribe cattle,” the lawsuit claims.

But, according to the band, the problems continued.

“They had absolute power over us, and they could do whatever they wanted,” band councillor Martin Heavy Head says. “In the end, they devastated the whole economy of the Blood reserve, because at that time agriculture was the economy.”

New housing is a priority for the Blood Tribe, if band members vote in favour of the $150-million settlement. (Reid Southwick/CBC)

None of the Blood Tribe’s claims were tested in court because the case was ultimately put on hold. In 2000, two years after it filed the lawsuit, the band attempted to resolve the dispute through an arm’s length specific claims review set up by the government.

It dragged on until earlier this month when the First Nation revealed it had reached the $150-million settlement with Ottawa.

“We know about the history; it’s been passed down to us,” Heavy Head says. “This is a fulfillment of that oral history that was given to us from our ancestors.”

The federal government is declining to comment on the settlement, but says generally settling Indigenous claims “helps to right past wrongs, renew relationships and advance reconciliation for the benefit of all Canadians.”

At least 2,000 must vote

In order to ratify the settlement, a quarter of eligible band members, which equates to about 2,000 people, must show up to a vote scheduled for March 11, with one poll on the reserve and a second at a southeast Calgary hotel. A simple majority must vote in favour.

Heavy Head says the Blood Tribe calculates the losses to its cattle industry were actually more than double the value of the settlement, but he says Ottawa capped what it was willing to pay.

“Rather than going back to square one and restarting negotiations and maybe working another 20 years or however long it would take, we have to accept the cap, which is that amount,” he says, adding the settlement is still the biggest deal his community has ever reached with Ottawa.

Harvey Sweetgrass, who lives on the Blood reserve, says he backs the settlement, but worries about whether the money will be spent appropriately. (Reid Southwick/CBC)

Heavy Head says the money could pay for some badly needed projects, explaining the band administration building and the local hockey rink need to be refurbished or replaced. There’s also talk of a potential new courthouse, a ceremonial centre for funerals and new housing.

‘Money will help a lot’

Harvey Sweetgrass, a band member, says he supports the settlement but he worries about whether the money would go to where it’s intended, arguing that previous financial settlements didn’t benefit the people as much as they should have.

“That money will help a lot if it’s managed right and it goes to the proper channels,” Sweetgrass says.

“We’ve had settlements in the past and we’ve never seen anything come out of it. People vote yes, giving the leadership the opportunity to do it, but it doesn’t really work out the way it’s supposed to.”

Don Bottle, who also lives on the reserve, says he plans to encourage everyone he knows to vote in favour of the settlement, which would “enhance our economic and our financial status and also be very beneficial to the people.”

Don Bottle hopes his fellow band members vote in favour of the settlement, ‘so that we could have what our ancestors should have had back in the day.’ (Reid Southwick/CBC)

“It would create jobs and would enhance their lifestyles by having funds … to buy what they need for their homes, for their children,” Bottle says.

“We need to upgrade these buildings that we have. It would be nice to have a casino on the reserve and a motel included to put our people to work.

“Not only that, but [it would help] the tribe as a whole, so that we could have what our ancestors should have had back in the day.”

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Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area.[7] It is located adjacent to the City of Edmonton’s eastern boundary,[8] generally south of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail), west of Highway 21 and north of Highway 630 (Wye Road).[9] Other portions of Sherwood Park extend beyond Yellowhead Trail and Wye Road, while Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) separates Refinery Row to the west from the balance of the hamlet to the east.[9]

Sherwood Park was established in 1955 on farmland of the Smeltzer family, east of Edmonton. With a population of 70,618 in 2016,[6] Sherwood Park has enough people to be Alberta’s seventh largest city, but technically retains the status of a hamlet. The Government of Alberta recognizes the Sherwood Park Urban Service Area as equivalent to a city.

History

Sherwood Park, originally named Campbelltown, was founded by John Hook Campbell and John Mitchell in 1953 when the Municipal District of Strathcona No. 83 approved their proposed development of a bedroom community east of Edmonton. The first homes within the community were marketed to the public in 1955. Canada Post intervened on the name of Campbelltown due to the existence of several other communities in Canada within the same name, so the community’s name was changed to Sherwood Park in 1956.
Geography

The Sherwood Park Urban Service Area is located in the Edmonton Capital Region along the western edge of central Strathcona County adjacent to the City of Edmonton.[8] The majority of the community is bound by Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) to the north, Highway 21 to the east, Highway 630 (Wye Road) to the south, and Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) to the west. The Refinery Row portion of Sherwood Park is located across Anthony Henday Drive to the west, between Sherwood Park Freeway and Highway 16. Numerous developments fronting the south side of Wye Road, including Wye Gardens, Wye Crossing, Salisbury Village and the Estates of Sherwood Park, are also within the community. Lands north of Highway 16 and south of Township Road 534/Oldman Creek between Range Road 232 (Sherwood Drive) to the west and Highway 21 to the east are also within the Sherwood Park urban service area.

“You try to pick up any pig, the first thing they do is scream and then squirm. Everything is thrashing about and freaking out so you risk dropping them and breaking their legs,” Pauls said from her new home in Pigeon Lake.

It was about 7 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2018, when Paul, who lived on an acreage in the Millet area, was startled awake by the sound of her neighbour screaming outside.

Her mobile home was on fire, the front porch of the rental was engulfed in flames.

Dressed only in pajamas, Pauls and her husband managed to get their cats, dogs and another pet pig — this one named Matilda — out of the house safely.

But Mr. Pua, their older and much larger house pig, was trapped inside a back bedroom where he sleeps during the cold winter months.

Because of a miscommunication, Paul said, more than an hour passed before firefighters arrived. Panic had begun to set in.

Mr. Pua was a cherished pet. They had nursed him back to health as a piglet and his company — along with a brood of recently acquired farm animals including goats and miniature horses — had helped the couple deal with their new status as empty-nesters.

Pauls’ husband tried again to go back inside their burning home to save Mr. Pua, but it was too dangerous.

“When the fire came in off the deck, it came through our living room, through our kitchen, up into the roof over to our bedrooms,” Pauls said.

“The deck doors were completely on fire … You couldn’t see in front of you.”

Mr Pua has always liked to lounge inside during the winter months. The cold is hard on his arthritic bones. (Angela Pauls/Facebook)

Gandam said it was a strange night on the job.He’d saved cats from trees, a duck out of a sewer, but never a pig.

Gandam had followed one of the other firefighters inside the trailer but couldn’t see him anywhere. Then he heard a loud crash in the back hallway.

Gandam found his fellow first responder in the washroom, wrestling with a pig.

After a moment of disbelief, Gandam got to work saving Mr. Pua.

I wasn’t sure if Mr. Pua was a biter or not.– Tyler Gandam

“Between the two of us, we got it moving in the right direction outside the bathroom and then I used a big water bottle from a water cooler to corral it out of the trailer,” Gandam recalled. “It was pretty reluctant to go so.

“A person, you can pull out and not have to worry about them biting you. I wasn’t sure if Mr. Pua was a biter or not.”

Eventually, Gandam found Pauls outside and let her know Mr. Pua was safe. Gandam said her reaction reminded him of why he loves the job.

“The tears started and she was so thankful,” he said. “I don’t know how heroic I would call it but I was just glad we were able to reunite Mr. Pua and Angela.

“I was still trying to wrap my head around the fact that we had saved a pig from a structure fire.”

The ordeal left Mr. Pua a little singed.

After the fire, Mr. Pua spent a few weeks recuperating in the “cat room” of a luxury pet resort. (Awesome Pawsome/Facebook)

“Of course, the roof is caving in, there is fire and flames and water and chemical going everywhere. He got two burns on his back, his ears and his feet.”

Hamming it up

After a short stint at the veterinarian, Mr. Pua was offered free accommodations at Awesome Pawsome, a Spruce Grove pet hotel where he quickly became cause célèbre.

“They offered him free room and board while he was healing, so we could find a new home,” Pauls said.

“[They] put him up in the cat room. He had his own private bathroom, his own private sleeping quarters and he apparently became quite the sensation on their Facebook.”

Since then, Mr. Pua has moved into his new pen inside the heated garage of his new family home.

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An eerie red glow will dominate Edmonton’s sky Sunday night as the moon undergoes a total lunar eclipse.

People were invited to watch the phenomenon at the Telus World of Science on 112th Avenue and 142th Street.

Frank Florian, director of the planetarium at the Telus World of Science in Edmonton, said the full moon should be at its optimum red or copper hue between 9:41 p..m. and 10:43 p.m.

Telescopes are set up along the walkway at the science centre to magnify the view of the moon.

“You’ll be able to see craters and valleys and mountain ridges on the moon, dip into the earth’s shadow, which is kind of a cool thing to do.”

He said those who can’t make it to the science centre can just look up.

“You don’t need to use optical aids like binoculars or telescopes to view a lunar eclipse,” he said. “Just go outside, look up with your eyes alone.” edm-lunareclipse-0120 1:02

A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon moves through the earth’s shadow, blocking the sun from shining on the moon

The eclipse starts at about 8:30 p.m. and turns into a partial eclipse from 10:43 p.m. until 11:50 p.m. when the moon is moving out of the shadow.

He describes it as sunlight passing through the earth’s atmosphere around the edge of the earth, bending, “just like light bending through a prism.”

“If you were on the moon’s surface looking back at the earth, you’d actually see a ring of red around the earth.

Total lunar eclipses happen every two to five years.

Frank Florian, director of the planetarium at the Telus World of Science, tests a telescope ahead of the total eclipse. (Nathan Gross/CBC)

The last one visible in Canada was in January 2018, in the early morning.

The next total lunar eclipse is set for May 26, 2021, Florian said, but will be early as well and not as visible as the moon in the night sky. The next best total eclipse will be May 15, 2022, in the early evening, he said.

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Sherwood Park is a large hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Strathcona County that is recognized as an urban service area.[7] It is located adjacent to the City of Edmonton’s eastern boundary,[8] generally south of Highway 16 (Yellowhead Trail), west of Highway 21 and north of Highway 630 (Wye Road).[9] Other portions of Sherwood Park extend beyond Yellowhead Trail and Wye Road, while Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) separates Refinery Row to the west from the balance of the hamlet to the east.[9]

Sherwood Park was established in 1955 on farmland of the Smeltzer family, east of Edmonton. With a population of 70,618 in 2016,[6] Sherwood Park has enough people to be Alberta’s seventh largest city, but technically retains the status of a hamlet. The Government of Alberta recognizes the Sherwood Park Urban Service Area as equivalent to a city.

History

Sherwood Park, originally named Campbelltown, was founded by John Hook Campbell and John Mitchell in 1953 when the Municipal District of Strathcona No. 83 approved their proposed development of a bedroom community east of Edmonton. The first homes within the community were marketed to the public in 1955. Canada Post intervened on the name of Campbelltown due to the existence of several other communities in Canada within the same name, so the community’s name was changed to Sherwood Park in 1956.
Geography

The Sherwood Park Urban Service Area is located in the Edmonton Capital Region along the western edge of central Strathcona County adjacent to the City of Edmonton.[8] The majority of the community is bound by Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) to the north, Highway 21 to the east, Highway 630 (Wye Road) to the south, and Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) to the west. The Refinery Row portion of Sherwood Park is located across Anthony Henday Drive to the west, between Sherwood Park Freeway and Highway 16. Numerous developments fronting the south side of Wye Road, including Wye Gardens, Wye Crossing, Salisbury Village and the Estates of Sherwood Park, are also within the community. Lands north of Highway 16 and south of Township Road 534/Oldman Creek between Range Road 232 (Sherwood Drive) to the west and Highway 21 to the east are also within the Sherwood Park urban service area.